{"id":10657,"date":"2026-05-01T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/duran-duran-is-free-to-love\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:30:00","slug":"duran-duran-is-free-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/duran-duran-is-free-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran is \u2018Free to Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/leadcredit-Stephanie-Pistel-PISTEL-DD-2025-PLUS-NILE-RED-.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"736\" alt=\"Duran Duran. (All photos by Stephanie Pistel)\"><figcaption>Duran Duran. (All photos by Stephanie Pistel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Nick Rhodes opens the door to his suite at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, my immediate observation is that we\u2019re both wearing black and white. He\u2019s in a well-worn black T-shirt from his bandmate<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2023\/08\/want-to-live-like-duran-durans-john-taylor-heres-how\/\"> John Taylor<\/a>\u2019s collaboration with Punkmasters,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/shopping\/duran-duran-john-taylor-fashion-fans-collection-tariffs-1236195830\/\" target=\"_blank\"> JT x PM<\/a>, and white jeans, while I\u2019m in a blazer that would fit in with their early videos. I mention I was worried I\u2019d overdone that palette, and he says, \u201cOh, you can never have too much monochrome.\u201d I take his word for it. As the keyboard player for the evergreen Duran Duran, Nick has been a fashion icon for almost half a century.<\/p>\n<p>This shabby chic Chateau Marmont setting suits him. The band is here for rehearsals ahead of their appearance on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!,\u201d performing their new song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W1-2XVQs46U\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFree to Love\u201d<\/a> with special guest Nile Rodgers, an honorary member of the group since his chart-topping remix of their 1984 hit, \u201cThe Reflex.\u201d Later this week, they headline<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beachlifefestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> BeachLife Festival<\/a>, then head to Las Vegas for their<a href=\"https:\/\/duranduran.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\"> four-night residency<\/a> at Bleaulive at the Fontainebleau. The group is rarely far from a stage, with European dates filling up their summer calendar.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere-2\/\">No Man, (Mostly) No Problem: Kacey Musgraves Roams Free<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/american-football-lp4-review\/\">Older, Sadder, Better: American Football Leans In On \u2018LP4\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/deep-cut-friday-red-velvet-by-outkast\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Red Velvet\u2019 by Outkast<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With this many performances on the docket, the frothy, funk-spired, feel-good jam is a welcome refresher for the setlist. Nick himself is a frothy, feel-good gentleman. Hospitable and warm, he walks me to the balcony overlooking the Chateau\u2019s grounds, its mature trees bursting with blooms. The al fresco dining area is covered with beige tents, dulling the landscape. \u201cWhat do we think of these covers?\u201d I ask him. \u201cI kind of hate them.\u201d He doesn\u2019t disagree, saying, \u201cIt certainly ruins my view of spying on people while they\u2019re eating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back inside, when we settle on the couch, I notice smudged eyeliner in the corners of his eyes and the faded glow of blush. Are you even in the presence of a member of Duran Duran if there isn\u2019t at least some makeup on their face?<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw them on screen, the visual impact of this band knocked me out. I had never seen humans who looked like them. The group was a lifeline for me after the Islamic Revolution banned music. Their videos and \u201cTop of the Pops\u201d appearances found their way into our home via bootleg Betamax videocassettes taped off the BBC and smuggled into the country. I watched them repeatedly and knew every blink and gesture by heart. These days, when YouTube feeds me classic \u201cTop of the Pops\u201d episodes, I can narrate the movements a split second before they happen.<\/p>\n<p>This is not my first encounter with Nick. From our early interactions more than a decade ago, he\u2019s been friendly and effortlessly polite, his natural refinement and cultured outlook a steadfast calling card. He, and his bandmates, are worldly and thoughtful, perpetually on the cutting edge of new trends and maintaining their decades-long position as trailblazers who are impossible to imitate. It looks like that\u2019s going to hold.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"-MyU3lZCtHI\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>How did \u201cFree to Love\u201d come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We wrote it when we were doing the sessions for \u201cBlack Moonlight\u201d for <em>Danse Macabre<\/em>. Nile came up the riff and we were all playing at the time. I remember everyone said, \u201cOh, this is really cool. It\u2019s too summery, though it\u2019s too uplifting. It\u2019s not for a Halloween album. We need something a little darker and moodier.\u201d But I never forgot this track. I\u2019d shelved it somewhere on ice next to the vodka in the back of my brain. One day I said to the band, \u201cDo you remember that other song that we started? Do you mind if I put it in some kind of shape so we can all listen to it properly?\u201d and they said, \u201cOh yeah, it was good. Sure, be our guest.\u201d I went into the studio, pieced together a rough, then played it to everyone. They said, \u201cWow, actually, it\u2019s really great,\u201d and that\u2019s when we started the process of finishing the song and Nile came over to London for the last few things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>My image of Nile has been jolted a little recently, especially after the Billy Idol documentary when he said, <\/strong><strong>\u201cI was a real party animal, be it on the coke or the booze or the what have you\u2026 then saying he and Billy were \u201ctotally lit\u201d the first time they met David Bowie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were times when we were making the <em>Notorious<\/em> album, I seem to remember half the contents of Bolivia disappearing into the desk. He did really well to pull himself out of it, because he was a little on the wild side. I love Nile. We all do. He\u2019s a natural phenomenon. When he plugs in, he\u2019s like a machine. The guitar becomes part of him. I\u2019ve never, ever seen a more natural musician in my life. He\u2019s just smiling when he\u2019s playing and he\u2019s happy. There isn\u2019t a better living rhythm guitarist that I know of. You think about Nile\u2019s catalog, the people that he\u2019s worked with, he\u2019s peerless, completely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFree to Love\u201d is a really fun song.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, exactly. That\u2019s what our ethos has always been. Early on, people seemed to say, \u201cOh, Duran Duran, they write pop songs, great, but they really don\u2019t get involved with different things in the world. They don\u2019t get involved with politics.\u201d Well, no, we\u2019re not politicians, but it doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t all have fairly strong political views. We\u2019re not flag wavers. Instead of looking at the doom and gloom and wallowing in it, we did the opposite. We said, \u201cLet\u2019s find a way out.\u201d As time has passed, I think people have realized that. We could have made a nice dark gothic piece\u2014which I love\u2014but people need to smile a little bit. People need to get on the dance floor. It\u2019s too much going on that\u2019s bad. People just need to forget. This is our response to that.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"857\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_BTS_NICK_9069_DEF.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Rhodes.\" class=\"wp-image-659557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_BTS_NICK_9069_DEF.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_BTS_NICK_9069_DEF-340x243.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_BTS_NICK_9069_DEF-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_BTS_NICK_9069_DEF-498x356.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nick Rhodes. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The video leans into that positivity as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I came up with this idea of doing a \u201cTop of the Pops\u201d homage thing. When we first did \u201cTop of the Pops,\u201d we were over the moon. Everybody\u2014all our heroes\u2014had been on it, and that was a real badge of honor. After you\u2019ve done it a dozen times, you think, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to go to that studio again and sit there all day.\u201d They didn\u2019t like you leaving\u2014not even if you want to go and buy a sandwich. But now, it\u2019s been gone for so long, we look back and it\u2019s kind of amazing. Here, you had \u201cAmerican Bandstand\u201d and the one I loved most, \u201cSoul Train,\u201d which we played on. I\u2019d never seen that many good dancers in one room. That was fun. We suffused a bit of that into the video. The studio looked just like \u201cTop of the Pops.\u201d Jonas \u00c5kerlund, who directed, got these old cameras so that it looked exactly right. Jonas was the chosen partner by all of us, because he gets detail. He got everything perfect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It definitely brings back something we know we\u2019re missing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lots of people say, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be great, even if \u201cTop of the Pops\u201d did just one special a year?\u201d I say, \u201cWho would they put on it? Some kid from a basement with his computer? How\u2019s it going to look? What are they going to do?\u201d We\u2019ve got a bunch of divas that are amazing, but there\u2019s not really many bands or duos or trios. It\u2019s just not like that anymore, is it? Have you seen the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d sketch with the DJ? The whole thing is about waiting to press that button. It\u2019s fantastic. The last ones we did were in the \u201990s. That was starting then. People would turn up, and they\u2019d just have one keyboard and a laptop or something. For all the angles, people need to be moving around a bit. I\u2019m behind a keyboard. I don\u2019t move very much, pop from one foot to the other. But you need things to move, don\u2019t you? That was what made it fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post Islamic Revolution, bootleg Betamax videos of \u201cTop of the Pops\u201d were a lifeline for us in Iran. I remember seeing Duran Duran videos and thinking I had never seen humans that looked like you five in my life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not the first person who has said that. We wouldn\u2019t have realized at the time because we couldn\u2019t go to those countries. Fans from Russia, China come to us and say, \u201cWe used to get all these tapes.\u201d I\u2019ve got a bunch of them in the archive. I\u2019ve got one from Taiwan and loads from the Philippines.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"oeqDNL6Wf2w\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Are you the keeper of the Duran Duran archive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I got the collecting bug from my dad. I\u2019ve always kept everything and all I end up with is more storage. I\u2019m collecting storage units now. The world\u2019s got enough clutter in it would be one argument. The other one would be, someone\u2019s got to keep some things to remind us what things were. And I guess I\u2019m one of those people. A lot of my friends are complete minimalists. I\u2019m a maximalist. There\u2019s stuff everywhere in my house. It makes life more interesting. I have an obsession with books, mostly picture books. I\u2019ve got more than I could ever read even with the small amount of text in photography books, but I\u2019m never, ever short of something to look at. That\u2019s where a lot of my inspiration comes from.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duran Duran are trailblazers when it comes to technology. What\u2019s your take on AI in the creative sphere?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I always feel about new technologies is there\u2019s going to be people that embrace them and think it\u2019s the greatest thing. A lot of people have already become billionaires from becoming the first to create AI platforms and AI businesses. Then there\u2019s people that want to smash up the new machinery and say, \u201cThe world is just going mad, and we should not be using this kind of technology. It\u2019s a disaster. Everything\u2019s falling apart.\u201d This has happened with everything. Let\u2019s go back to the Industrial Revolution, when all the workers wanted to smash up the machinery. It\u2019s not really any different, and it won\u2019t be any different in the same way that the machinery never got smashed up. AI is here. The genie is out of the bottle. It does not matter, really, what you think about it or what your position is. Get used to it now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean I love everything about it at all. I think it\u2019s utterly despicable that people can take anybody\u2019s material, bands\u2019 songs, stick them into some sausage machine, and then out of the other end comes a song that\u2019s sort of a bit similar to that style of music. Inevitably, some of those songs, eventually, are going to be quite good. It\u2019s a matter of odds, but most of it is utter junk. I\u2019m not pro anybody flooding the market with more junk. We\u2019ve got enough out there already\u2014particularly when it\u2019s junk that\u2019s not even made by people. One of the things I\u2019ve always loved about the arts is that they\u2019re made by real people, for people. The idea of a machine being able to mimic that is, of course, disturbing on one level, in that it takes away some of our unique qualities that we have always treasured as humans. But then, on the other hand, it can be useful. Medical uses already are pretty extraordinary, and it can save a lot of lives. It makes a lot of things faster when you need to find things. The search engines are remarkable now. That side of it I really love. But I\u2019m also curious about what you can do creatively with it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"857\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_LIVE_DANCERS_1N7A9460_DEF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-659519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_LIVE_DANCERS_1N7A9460_DEF.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_LIVE_DANCERS_1N7A9460_DEF-340x243.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_LIVE_DANCERS_1N7A9460_DEF-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_LIVE_DANCERS_1N7A9460_DEF-498x356.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Would you use AI as an assistive tool to create music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have zero intention of asking it to write me a song. But at the same time, what I might be interested in, the same way that I\u2019d be interested in taking a card out of a deck and saying, \u201cWell, if I pick a six, then I\u2019m going to change the key. If I pick a king, I\u2019m going to miss a chorus,\u201d I\u2019m quite curious as to what you can do by using it as a tool. Haven\u2019t done it with songs yet at all. But at some stage, I have no doubt that I will be curious enough to try something.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding visuals, I\u2019ve used it quite a lot. We were the first ones to make an AI video, for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SMCd5zrsFpE\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201cInvisible.\u201d<\/a> That I was thrilled to do because it really was a challenge. It was at the very beginning of moving AI and video. We had this machine called Huxley. Huxley was trying to make all these things, but for about two days solid, Huxley just made dogs. We couldn\u2019t stop Huxley from making dogs. Some of the dogs look like giraffes and some of them were very Dr. Seuss. It was very uncontrollable at that time.<\/p>\n<p>I made another one for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BpWrSTBP5rg\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201cDanse Macabre,\u201d<\/a> which was all animation. Again, that was the early stages of the technology. I sat in this room actually, making it with the video guy, Linc [Gasking], who was amazing. We got a lot of things that really work well, but when we found a central character we liked, it wouldn\u2019t repeat the character. Now you can do that with AI, but you couldn\u2019t then. I put in this really detailed description of a gothic horse and stagecoach going through a forest with all the light beams coming in through the window, a gothic girl with a slightly bluish face and big eyes wearing a Victorian dress, with the trees and the shadows coming up. It came back and it looked absolutely amazing, but it had put the carriage in front of the horses. That\u2019s the AI learning process.<\/p>\n<p>But I do think it will be useful. I\u2019ve made visuals for our live show using AI. Some people say, \u201cMaybe you should\u2019ve got an animator to do that instead, or got actors to play these parts.\u201d But it\u2019s different. AI is AI. If you use AI, it literally is a tool. And if you don\u2019t like it, then you don\u2019t use it, do you?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"857\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_JOHN_LIVE_570_DEF.jpg\" alt=\"John Taylor.\" class=\"wp-image-659559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_JOHN_LIVE_570_DEF.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_JOHN_LIVE_570_DEF-340x243.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_JOHN_LIVE_570_DEF-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/FTL_JOHN_LIVE_570_DEF-498x356.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Taylor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Something I\u2019ve heard repeatedly said by musicians of your generation and those who came before is how you used your inspiration to create something entirely different and new. I\u2019m not feeling that\u2019s the case as much with current day artists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re definitely going to have smart-ass idiots at record labels\u2014of which there are plenty\u2014who can say, \u201cHey, I\u2019ve got a great idea. Let\u2019s put in Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish and mix it together and see what we get out of AI. Then we\u2019ll get someone to come and sing on top of it.\u201d The industry now, to me, is more cynical than it\u2019s ever been. They may as well be selling biscuits or burgers. They don\u2019t care about the product. There are very few people left in the industry that are anything like the times that I grew up in, or the \u201970s when there were real music people. Moguls like Ahmet Ertegun, who really knew what he was doing, and Clive Davis. People that loved songs and knew how to develop artists. People forget that Pink Floyd were signed to EMI and nearly got dropped a couple of times. But there were people there that loved Pink Floyd, and their eighth album was <em>The Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>. But had they just said, \u201cOh, your first album didn\u2019t do so well guys, sorry, we\u2019re moving on now,\u201d you wouldn\u2019t have had Pink Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they don\u2019t really care. They don\u2019t know anything. The people that may as well be selling some kind of domestic product as selling music. There\u2019s no artist relations that are outstanding that I know of. I\u2019m sure someone else is going to want to come and shoot me down in flames and say, \u201cAt our label, we have the best team that has found all these people.\u201d But usually, even if you look at some of the success stories, a lot of stuff now is broken out of people doing things themselves online. When did you last hear a story that somebody turned up at a record label, played some demos to them that an A&amp;R guy actually said, \u201cThat\u2019s amazing. You come with us. We\u2019ll give you some money. We\u2019ll fund you a little. We\u2019re going to put out your album. We\u2019re going to promote it a bit. We\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d When did that happen? What they want is something that\u2019s already prepared and boxed up for them, meaning it\u2019s been on reality TV and it won the contest. Then they say, \u201cThis is great. We\u2019re going to be so clever. We can stream one million downloads of this in the first two weeks,\u201d which they do, and then two years later, gone, move on to the next one, because no one remembers, and there\u2019s been a lot more TV shows since.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s sad to me, because you want generations of kids to have something that their parents don\u2019t like. You want kids to be able to rebel and say, \u201cThat\u2019s ours. That belongs to us.\u201d And if what they\u2019ve got at the moment is TV stars that belong to them, that is a shame. Normally, I\u2019m all for progress and life moves on, and isn\u2019t it great, but that one, nah. You need proper artists.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"857\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_PORTRAIT_SIMON_DANCERS_1220_DEF.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Le Bon. \" class=\"wp-image-659514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_PORTRAIT_SIMON_DANCERS_1220_DEF.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_PORTRAIT_SIMON_DANCERS_1220_DEF-340x243.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_PORTRAIT_SIMON_DANCERS_1220_DEF-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/credit-Stephanie-Pistel-FTL_PORTRAIT_SIMON_DANCERS_1220_DEF-498x356.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Simon Le Bon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Longevity is definitely something Duran Duran is enjoying. Do you feel your relationship with your fans has changed over the years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think the relationships do change. Some of these fans we\u2019ve known, at this stage, for 30-something years. You can\u2019t help but have a fondness and an admiration for them for sticking around for that long and for supporting us. I think any artist that does not recognize that they\u2019re still there because of their fans is a fool. That\u2019s what we attribute everything to. We\u2019re enormously grateful, and I really mean it. It\u2019s enabled us to do what we do. If we got to the point where we had to self-fund everything and nobody ever bought our records or came to any of our shows, it would have been a lot harder. The thing we\u2019ve been most blessed with as a band that is around for more than several decades is you crossover generations. A lot of that is our fans getting their kids involved or introducing it to the neighbor who\u2019s half their age. When I look out at the audience, I literally see everyone from tiny little kids that were, for sure, probably only born when we put the last album, all the way through to people that are our age, and possibly even a little older, and that\u2019s kind of great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With all your accomplishments and achievements, is there any box left unticked? Your default venue in Los Angeles is the Hollywood Bowl. Where do you go from there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I mean, I do love that. But just when you think there isn\u2019t something, there\u2019s always things left. For the last decade, on and off, at different times, we\u2019ve been looking at a Duran Duran movie. I don\u2019t want to just do a straightforward biopic. I\u2019m sure some of them are fine, but it doesn\u2019t feel right to me. I think we should do it differently. So we\u2019re looking at ways to maybe do that. People have been talking about a musical for about 15 years. Again, I don\u2019t really like those songbook things, a jukebox where you just go through everything. We\u2019re considering doing a theater piece in New York, which we haven\u2019t signed off on yet. It\u2019s dance but it\u2019d be very modern and we\u2019d work with the interesting people on it. I think that\u2019s actually quite exciting. There\u2019s lots of things like that that you always look at, and they\u2019re not all going to land. The people that did ABBA Voyage, they\u2019d approached us to talk about something. I went to see it. It is pretty remarkable. The technology has moved so much further now. But then, of course, there\u2019s writing more songs, playing different kinds of venues. As we move forward, I have to say, I do have slightly less interest in just continuing playing exactly the same venues. But then, how do you ever get bored with the Hollywood Bowl or Madison Square Garden?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duran Duran. 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